The Online Dating Catalog

Are you as tired of the games as I am? All the online chatting that goes nowhere, the string of endless first dates? No one talks, no one connects anymore.

And no one seems to want to give anyone a chance anymore unless you’re exactly the vision they have in their head of The Perfect Person™ right off the bat.

You get about ten seconds to make an impression based on pictures and a couple of lines of text, and then it’s on to the next person without a backwards glance. We’re surrounded by people but all of us are starving for something real.

It’s like we’re ordering off of The Online Dating Catalog. Like we’re products instead of people.

And I don’t know about you but I don’t know how to sell myself to make someone want to buy me. I don’t think I should have to.

I want someone to see me. Just for once. I get tired of being overlooked when I know I’d make someone out there a really happy guy.

Especially because I’m not a hookup kind of girl… I think it’s backwards when we have sex first and then figure out our feelings later.

At the same time I’m not jaded, and I’m not one of those ladies who hates on men. I believe in love. And I believe there are good men out there still.

So let me ask you this. Do you want someone who will cuddle with you on the couch? Someone who will make you laugh, make you feel special? Someone who will listen to you and appreciate you?

Don’t you want someone to come home to?

And why isn’t this more important than whatever airbrushed and filtered and curated image our profiles try to sell ourselves to each other as?